MySQL

[Carl Parrish]

Has anyone played with compiling mySQL latly? I made some of what I
thought were simple code changes but I can't get it to compile with gcc
2.96 so I went back and tried to compile the source before my changes
and I relized that I installed it from rpm (don't know how *THAT*
happened). So I tried to install from source over it. but its still
telling me the same error. 
configure error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler
cannot create executables. 

I *really* don't think its my code this time (though I am checking now).
Does anyone know if mySQL has a problem with gcc2.96? ( I know there
were problems with 3.0). Or can anyone think of another reason why it
wouldn't compile?

Carl completlylosttoday Parrish.